The Role of models@run.time in Autonomic Systems: Keynote

Autonomic systems manage their own behaviour in accordance with high-level goals. This paper presents a brief outline of challenges related to Autonomic Computing due to uncertainty in the operational environments, and the role that models@run.time play in meeting them. We argue that the existing progress in Autonomic Computing can be further exploited with the support of runtime models. We briefly discuss our ideas related to the need to understand the extent to which the high-level goals of the autonomic system are being satisfied to support decision-making based on runtime evidence and, the need to support self-explanation.